Health and Social Services

Nepal Unites is a URI member group from Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal. Addressing a serious shortage of blood donations, they organized a program which attracted celebrity attention as well as 13 pints of donations.

URI Cooperation Circles at the Frontline of the Pandemic

In this podcast, Anytown Director Rico Ocampo has an in-depth conversation with Silvia Araya regarding mental health in the Latinx community.

Surendra is a cricket umpire and coach who felt the call to help his suffering community.

The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing, President and Founding Trustee of URI, shares his story about why he chose to get vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus on Ash Wednesday, 2021.

This year on Ash Wednesday, my wife, Mary, and I not only had ashes, from church, placed on our foreheads; we also went to a medical clinic and had the second doses of Moderna Covid vaccine injected in our arms.

Last Monday, January 25, 2021, Marina Tirado, the first member of the Para El Diálogo CC from Caracas, Venezuela received an Acknowledgment for her neighborhood work during 2020.

The members of Quinaroa CC perform a ritual to close the year and which in turn welcomes the new year. It is a ritual that, days before the end of the year, begins with the elaboration of the Arch of La Abundancia in La Casa Quinaroes, which is the community family home.

In 2018, United Religions Initiative (URI) and India HIV/AIDS Alliance (Alliance India) launched a novel initiative to build bridges between harm reduction and faith communities called #Faith4HarmReduction.

On November 25, members of CC Sonrío in Buenos Aires, Argentina were able to make their first face-to-face visit to the post-quarantine hospital, even in times of pandemic.